Preparations have been well underway to welcome the Borderland Thunder for their first home game this Friday night. M & M Meat Shops here is organizing a tailgate party–featuring food and music–starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Centre as a way to get Thunder fans ready for the […]
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The Borderland Thunder have the right ingredients heading into their first set of home games this weekend–a 4-1-1 record, a taste of first place in the young Superior International Junior Hockey League, and a team that’s starting to come together. “It’ll be big. We’ve got a lot of fan support […]
This weekend, the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club will consider whether to shut down its network of about 400 km of trails because of a lack of funding. The club is facing a dwindling amount of trail permit sales and, facing a move by the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs to […]
If there ever was a time to pinpoint a key week of practices and preparations by the Muskie football team, one need not look past last week as they got set for the annual Homecoming game. “We had a problem with commitment all year round,” admitted Muskie head coach Bob […]
Cathy Kowal, a local First Nations police officer, is taking on the challenge of her life next year when she competes at the national “Ironman” triathlon in Penticton, B.C. in an effort to raise money for cancer. “This one has a lot of personal meaning me,” Kowal said Friday. “My […]
Students from 16 elementary schools from across the area competed in the fourth-annual Rainy River District cross-country championships at Crossroads in Devlin last Wednesday. Close to 300 runners from grades four to eight took part in the event, which Crossroads principal Brian Love said fell on one of the last […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team lost some tough games at the Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Classic tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend. They opened play Friday night with a 32-25 loss to St. Patrick’s. Allison Hyatt led the Muskies with nine points, while Carling Barton netted six and Andrea Boileau […]
The Tagg’s Bantam ‘AA’ hockey team dumped the Dryden Hornets 8-1 here Saturday in their first exhibition game of the season. After the game, head coach Dave Egan had to make his final three roster cuts to finalize the team at 17 players. “They made it very tough for us. […]
The Borderland Thunder have the right ingredients heading into their first set of home games this weekend–a 4-1-1 record, a taste of first place in the young Superior International Junior Hockey League, and a team that’s starting to come together. “It’ll be big. We’ve got a lot of fan support […]
The Borderland Thunder took over first place in the inaugural Superior International Junior Hockey League after going undefeated on the weekend in Thunder Bay. The Thunder beat the Bulldogs 4-1 on Friday and 4-3 on Saturday before the Feathermen Hawks rallied with a late goal Sunday to earn a 3-3 […]
The Muskie ‘A’ football team used a stingy defence with a dash of clutch plays to edge the Churchill Bulldogs 10-7 during the annual Homecoming game here Friday afternoon. Trailing 7-3, the turning point came on the final play of the first half when Muskie wide receiver Adam McTavish caught […]
After losing their first three NorWOSSA matches in close five-set affairs, the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball finally came out on the positive side of a do-or-die game against the Kenora Broncos here yesterday. “I’m happy. We’ve been working very hard in practice,” said head coach Greg Ste. Croix, whose team […]
